Senigallia, 19th century on display from Marche collections

The city of Senigallia is hosting at Palazzetto Baviera, until Nov. 30, 2024, an exhibition entitled Glances at the Nineteenth Century. Italian Art in Marche’s Collections, which presents a collection of 60 paintings from museums and private collections in the region.

Prominent among the works on display is an oil-painted panel by the illustrious Ancona painter Francesco Podesti (1800-1895), which once adorned the famous Palazzo Torlonia in Rome. This palace, located in Piazza Venezia, was demolished in 1902 to make way for new road works. Podesti’s panel, as explained by the exhibition’s curator, Maria Gabriella Mazzocchi, is a preparatory model for the famous fresco The Triumph of Neptune, part of the vault of the Gallery of Hercules and Lica, where Antonio Canova’s sculptural group was on display. This piece, which miraculously survived demolition, aroused great interest among visitors, evoking images of a lost era and the splendor of the Torlonia Palace.

The exhibition, however, does not just celebrate Podesti and his work. The four exhibition rooms host a rich selection of paintings that testify to the rebirth of nineteenth-century painting in the Marche region, which has been rediscovered and enhanced in the past decade. The curator emphasizes that this is not just an exhibition on the Marche’s 19th century, but an overview of 19th-century Italian painting preserved in the region’s museums and private collections.

Another outstanding piece is a painting by Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929), which evokes the artist’s deep friendship with Gabriele d’Annunzio. The work, depicting two sheep with a boy, refers to d’Annunzio’s famous poem “The Shepherds,” “September, let’s go. It is time to migrate. Now in the land of Abruzzi my shepherds leave the stazzi and go toward the sea.”

The exhibition is divided into three thematic sections, “From History Painting to Unity,” “The Poetics of Truth,” and “Faces and People,” each offering a different perspective on the art of the period. The artists on display include such notable names as Gioacchino Toma, Filippo Palizzi, Raffaele Sernesi, Giuseppe De Nittis, Federico Rossano, Guglielmo Ciardi, Giuseppe Vaccaj, Giulio Gabrielli, Fortunato Duranti, Giacinto Gigante, Vito D’Ancona, Telemaco Signorini, Domenico Morelli, Silvetro Lega, Giovanni Fattori, Giacomo Favretto, Angelo Morbelli, Giovanni Boldini, Vincenzo Irolli, Ettore Tito, and many others.

Full admission €. 8.00 - citizens over the age of 25; concessionary admission €. 4.00 - citizens of the European Union between the ages of 18 and 25 and to teachers of state schools with permanent tenure; reduced admission €. 6.00 - members FAI, Touring, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Archeoclub d’Italia, Pro Loco, CNA, AVIS Senigallia, Associazione Albanostra - Cassa Mutua G. Leopardi, and ticket holders to the Rocca Roveresca or the State Archaeological Museum of Arcevia, special card for BCC Fano members, tourists guests of Senigallia’s hotel facilities with appropriate recognition; free for all citizens belonging to the European Union, under 18 years of age and for those enrolled in the Free University for Adults of Senigallia.

Showing your ticket to the Rocca Roveresca in Senigallia will entitle you to a reduced ticket for the exhibition. Cumulative tickets are available with the other exhibitions featured.

Senigallia, 19th century on display from Marche collections

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